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SubjectRe: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Phillip Susi wrote:

> David Lang wrote:
>> I just had what's probably a silly thought.
>>
>> as an alturnative to useing tar, what about useing a git pack?
>>
>> create a git archive with no history, just the current files, and then pack
>> it with agressive delta options.
>>
>
> Isn't that what a patch.gz is? Diff generates the deltas and then they are
> compressed. Can't get much simpler or better than that.

not quite, a git pack includes everythign you need to get the full source, a
patch.gz requires that you have the prior version of the source to start with.

David Lang
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